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Weber works on Economy and Society manuscripts for the Grundriss der Sozialökonomik

From about 1910, and with intensity around 1913–14, Max Weber wrote manuscript clusters for the Grundriss der Sozialökonomik later known as Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, including domination, law, and city fragments, left unfinished at his death. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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From about 1910, and with intensity around 1913–14, Max Weber wrote manuscript clusters for the Grundriss der Sozialökonomik later known as Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, including domination, law, and city fragments, left unfinished at his death. Bureaucracy and charisma as teaching concepts sit in these drafts at modest weight. It is not a completed treatise and not a department.

Context

Paul Siebeck’s handbook project organised many authors. Weber was one late, ill, perfectionist contributor. War in August 1914 interrupted the desk for lazarett duty. Sharing with the publisher and later editors is mandatory. Sharing is not a reason to pretend 1922 is 1914.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Why it matters

Education path of modest weight and medium confidence on any one chapter’s stop-date. High confidence the work was unfinished when he died.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Max Weber

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He wrote unfinished manuscript clusters for a handbook. Co-editors and later Marianne’s 1922 edition are other hands. The 1922 book is not a 1914 autograph HTML.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Max WeberStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe — Mohr SiebeckMohr Siebeck / MWG · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

MWG at https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/max-weber-gesamtausgabe-mwg-alle-baende-9783161595219/ (opens in a new tab) is the official edition that refuses a fake 1922-as-1914 unity. SEP at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/ (opens in a new tab) independently warns that Economy and Society is a posthumous arrangement of lifetime manuscripts.

Established: Weber wrote WuG-related manuscripts in the 1910s, unfinished. Not established: that a 1922 table of contents is his 1914 autograph. Contribution is recorded as He wrote unfinished manuscript clusters for a handbook. Co-editors and later Marianne’s 1922 edition are other hands. The 1922 book is not a 1914 autograph HTML. The impact note is Lifetime handbook manuscripts on economy, domination, and law are a modest education path, dated as work in progress, not as a finished 1922 volume he signed. The dated heading stays Weber works on Economy and Society manuscripts for the Grundriss der Sozialökonomik on 1914-06-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Weber works on Economy and Society manuscripts for the Grundriss der Sozialökonomik are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Weber works on Economy and Society manuscripts for the Grundriss der Sozialökonomik. Naming Max Weber does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1914-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorMax Weber
  2. contributed toFactWeber works on Economy and Society manuscripts for the Grundriss der Sozialökonomik
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Weber works on Economy and Society manuscripts for the Grundriss der Sozialökonomik. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/weber-wug-manuscripts-1914

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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